Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Niger and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Theoretical Girls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Divine Comedy,
Underground Resistance,
The Happenings,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Newcleus,
Intrusion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eric Copeland,
Crime,
Can,
The Gories,
Oneida,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ponytail,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Janne Schatter,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang Gang Dance,
ABC,
Pere Ubu,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Cale,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Sherman,
The Fall,
Nas,
Pierre Henry,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jeff Lynne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
This Heat,
Q and Not U,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Visage,
Thompson Twins,
Bill Wells,
The Dead C,
Kerri Chandler,
Animal Collective,
Fluxion,
Minnie Riperton,
The Music Machine,
cv313,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aloha Tigers,
Television,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Smooth,
Rapeman,
Talk Talk,
Infiniti,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Association,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.